Ordeal by Hunger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordeal by Hunger write by George R. Stewart. This book was released on 2013-09-30. Ordeal by Hunger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.
Ordeal by Hunger
Ordeal by Hunger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordeal by Hunger write by George R. Stewart. This book was released on 1992. Ordeal by Hunger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of the hardships encountered by the Donner Party on their 1846 overland trip to California.
Ordeal by Hunger : the story of the Donner party
Ordeal by Hunger : the story of the Donner party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordeal by Hunger : the story of the Donner party write by George R. Stewart. This book was released on 1964. Ordeal by Hunger : the story of the Donner party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Winter of Entrapment
Winter of Entrapment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winter of Entrapment write by Joseph A. King. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Winter of Entrapment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Desperate Passage
Desperate Passage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desperate Passage write by Ethan Rarick. This book was released on 2008-02-04. Desperate Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth. Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity." A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, A Desperate Hope casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.
